:58:00
When you left, was Colonel Taylor still alive?
:58:03
We loved Taylor.
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We did all we could to help him,
Cornelius and l.
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- Cornelius!
- She should have a nap now.
:58:18
She'll get it.
:58:24
- Orderly.
- Sir?
:58:27
- Please take the female ape to its quarters.
- Yes, sir.
:58:32
We have to get this
to the commission immediately.
:58:36
Gentlemen.
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l've received an official
notification from the president,
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ratifying the recommendations
made by this commission
:58:44
in light ofthe tape recordings
delivered to us by Dr Hasslein.
:58:48
Now, ifyou'll just be seated,
we'll get right down to business.
:58:52
Now, let me review our conclusions.
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One: by a majority vote, the commission
finds no solid evidence for hostility
:59:00
by either ape towards humans as at present
constituted in this year of our Lord 1973.
:59:07
Let me remind you
that this was by a majority vote.
:59:13
The male's attitude is that
of a well-disposed academician
:59:17
who studied the alleged
downfall ofthe human race
:59:20
with the true objectivity of a good historian.
:59:23
The female's case is different in that she
committed actions against the human race
:59:28
of a sort which, if committed today,
would be called atrocities.
:59:35
But would they be so called
in 2,000 years' time
:59:37
when it is alleged that humans
will have become dumb brutes
:59:41
with the restricted intelligence of animals?
:59:44
lt has been pointed out
that what apes will do to humans
:59:47
is no more than what humans
are now doing to beasts.
:59:51
Nonetheless, the commission is
sympathetic to Dr Hasslein's conviction
:59:56
that the progeny ofthese apes
could in centuries to come
:59:59
prove an increasing threat to the human race